With liberty and justice for some/​ Glenn Greenwald

• With liberty and justice for some : how the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful / Glenn Greenwald.

Author

• Greenwald, Glenn.

Edition

• 1st ed.

Published

• New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., c2011.

Physical Description

• 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Justice, Administration of -- United States.
• Privileges and immunities -- United States.
• Law and ethics.
• Law -- United States.
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.
• Law -- Political aspects -- United States.
• Equality before the law -- United States.

Summary

• Argues that the American legal system is set up in such a way that the politically powerful escape justice despite wrongdoing, while the disadvantaged fill the prisons.

Contents

• Introduction
• The origin of elite immunity
• Immunity in the private sector
• Too big to jail
• Immunity by presidential decree
• American justice's second tier
• Epilogue.

Notes

• Includes index.

Language

• English